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CUBS WIN

Phrossack said:
A Californian complaining about St. Louis smugness? Really? :p
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Hey man, I make no bones about how crappy the Giants' fanbase is. We're in the 4/5/6 range with the Yankees and Dodgers. We're (alongside the Warriors, but the overlap is nearly 1:1) the face of racist, gentrifying bandwagoning. A fanbase that's chill with rolling into a game in the 3rd, chatting through the whole game, and then turning around and telling another fan to stop cheering so loudly before bouncing in the 8th when the game turns into a blowout in either direction. But that doesn't excuse the Cardinals' eminently hateable dogwhistly "Act like you've been there before best fans in baseball tradition of class" crap. Or the condescending "isn't it quaint how passionate y'all are about your team, you'll get em next time bud" act.

Anyway, 2 good things to come out of the Cubs winning:

1) Cleveland going down after being up 3-1 in the series was oh, so cathartic.
2) Cleveland doesn't get rewarded for playing the full playoff run with that racist logo on their caps. No reward for superstition undercutting the actual progress the franchise made this season, and they're less likely to use those caps next time they make the playoffs.
 
Owen Glyndwr said:
Hey man, I make no bones about how crappy the Giants' fanbase is. We're in the 4/5/6 range with the Yankees and Dodgers. We're (alongside the Warriors, but the overlap is nearly 1:1) the face of racist, gentrifying bandwagoning. A fanbase that's chill with rolling into a game in the 3rd, chatting through the whole game, and then turning around and telling another fan to stop cheering so loudly before bouncing in the 8th when the game turns into a blowout in either direction. But that doesn't excuse the Cardinals' eminently hateable dogwhistly "Act like you've been there before best fans in baseball tradition of class" crap. Or the condescending "isn't it quaint how passionate y'all are about your team, you'll get em next time bud" act.

Anyway, 2 good things to come out of the Cubs winning:

1) Cleveland going down after being up 3-1 in the series was oh, so cathartic.
2) Cleveland doesn't get rewarded for playing the full playoff run with that racist logo on their caps. No reward for superstition undercutting the actual progress the franchise made this season, and they're less likely to use those caps next time they make the playoffs.
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I don't know how many Cardinals fans you know, but I've lived with them my whole life--almost everyone I know who cares about sports is one--and I wouldn't say they're the evil beings you make them out to be.

And I wasn't referring to the Giants. I was referring to Californians. You know, the people who, with New Yorkers, embody the coastal contempt and disdain for everyone born between California and Connecticut? I'm just saying, if St. Louisans are all despicable people for rooting for the wrong team, the same could be said of coastal snobs...
 
The North American Series (it doesn't deserve to be called World Series) is rigged. The Blue Jays deserve to win it. The election is rigged. Miss America is rigged, because the Canadian provinces don't get to enter. Miss Yukon should have won that, fair and square. Everything is rigged. It's all rigged.
 
tetley said:
The North American Series (it doesn't deserve to be called World Series) is rigged. The Blue Jays deserve to win it. The election is rigged. Miss America is rigged, because the Canadian provinces don't get to enter. Miss Yukon should have won that, fair and square. Everything is rigged. It's all rigged.
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They're named the World Series champions after some sort of a company or something, I forget now. Maybe a magazine or newspaper. Not the World champions obviously, as it's a north american competition only
 
Bootstoots said:
Because literally every thread in OT has to have something to do with the US presidential election, I'm going to drop this here right now.
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And this: http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/201...ame-7-chicago-cubs-cleveland-indians-election

Ken Rudin, who hosts the podcast "Political Junkie," noticed an interesting trend: When the World Series is decided in seven games in a presidential election year, the league that wins correlates to the political party that wins the White House.

Rudin found that when the American League wins Game 7 in an election year, the Republican nominee wins the White House. When the National League wins, the Democratic nominee wins.
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It's been a year for drought-breakers and fairytales.

  • Leicester won their first title in the EPL
  • The Cavs won their first championship since being formed in 1970
  • In the National Rugby League (Australia) the Cronulla Sharks won their first title since entering the comp in 1967
  • In the Australian Football League the Western Bulldogs won their first premiership since 1954
So the Cubs winning was probably inevitable really.

I can only assume that the Leafs are about to win a Stanley Cup and Ottawa or Winnipeg the Grey Cup.
 
Zkribbler said:
Cub fans take the term as an insult. It's like referring to San Francisco as "Frisco" in front of one of its citizens. It just isn't done. :nono:
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Unless it's the seventh-inning stretch, in which case it's customary to sing the lyric "Root, root, root for the Cubbies".
 
Being a lifetime fan, I've never considered it an insult. I don't know anyone that takes it seriously as an insult.
 
From one formerly-cursed fanbase to another:

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(Yeah, yeah, cross-post. I didn't notice this thread 'til now.)



Kyriakos said:
Oh, this is about a weird sport not played in Europe.

Well, well done i suppose, strange sport team :)
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It is played in Europe. And it's less strange than its antecedent, cricket. An Indian friend told me it resembles something called "rounders."
 
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